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The Tim Ferriss Show

Jamie Foxx Mega-Interview - 5-Minute Teaser

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Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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4.617.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2015

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy the teaser sample! Full episode coming in a few days. 2.5 hours of stories and impromptu performances in Jamie's studio, digging into acting, music, comedy, hustling, parenting, and much more. It blew my mind.

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0:00.0

Hello boys and girls this is Tim Ferriss from Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show.

0:04.0

If you hear some squeaking in the background, that's my puppy who is pleasure-wining chewing on a plush

0:10.6

corn on the cob. It looks like she's not going to perform for us. So that's okay because we have someone better.

0:16.0

We have Jamie Foxx, the one and only, the multi-talented polymath of entertainment.

0:21.0

You can hear the whining. That's how I feel on the inside because I'm so excited about this episode.

0:27.0

And this is a teaser. This particular episode is five minutes. You're going to get to hear a story about how he met P Diddy

0:34.0

and part of how he put together a $400 party to rival a million-dollar party that puffed that he put together.

0:41.0

You have some beef with Cosby, impersonations and some childhood stories, playing music at a Christmas party to overcome

0:48.0

racial tension among other things. We go everywhere with this. I don't want to spoil any surprises.

0:53.0

There's a lot more coming in just a few days. Two and a half hours with Jamie Foxx covering everything and many stories

0:59.0

known as ever heard. And it was a blast. So here's a taste, a little morsel to weight your appetite for things to come.

1:06.0

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1:14.0

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1:19.0

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1:25.0

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1:33.0

And then second is, if you haven't left a review, I would love an honest review. Just anything short is super helpful. And I do read these things.

1:41.0

I do go through and read them. It's very meaningful to me. So I appreciate it. And that is it.

1:46.0

So please enjoy the short teaser. And in a few days, you will get the two and a half hour.

1:52.0

Wem bam. Thank you, Van Dam, version of the full interview. So as always, thank you for listening.

2:00.0

I would follow Puffy Combs around back in the day when it was just like puff and J. Low and not. And back at that time,

2:10.0

no one could get into his parties. But the reason he would let me in because I would carry a camera with me every

2:14.4

hour ago. And so I couldn't get into all the parties because Puffy was so big, like he come to LA, we couldn't even get in our own clubs.

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